Actor Michael Shannon Goes Scorched Earth On Trump Voters: ‘The United States Of Moronic F**king A**holes’

Michael Shannon who played Nelson Van Alden in Boardwalk Empire and General Zod in Man of Steel has a new film coming out (which has some sexy ladies in it) called Nocturnal Animals.

And guessing by these two interviews he did recently to promote the film he apparently doesn’t care if anyone who voted for Donald Trump comes to see the movie.

For the first pass of his blowtorch Shannon spoke to RogerEbert.com

Can you make sense of any of that for me — how Trump was elected?

Yeah, I’ll tell you how to make sense of it: This country’s filled with ignorant jackasses. The big red dildo running through the middle of our country needs to be annexed to be its own country of moronic assholes. You can call it the United States of Moronic Fucking Assholes.

Do you think those assholes started off that way, or that people are inherently good and lost?

I don’t know how people got so goddamn stupid. But it’s really weird, because it’s like the last eight years, now it feels like a lie. Like, this has been festering underneath the whole time. Racists, sexists. And a lot of these people, they don’t know why the fuck they’re alive. They know it. They’re doing drugs, fucking killing themselves. Because they’re like, ‘Why the fuck am I alive? I can’t get a job, I don’t know anything about anything, I have no curiosity for life or the world.’ So this Trump thing is like getting a box of firecrackers, or something. It’s like, ‘Well, this will be fun for a little while, this’ll kill some time.’ Because, y’know, the jackass will be amusing on television, stay stupid shit. Make everybody clap. Hillary would have been too boring, I suppose. It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened. It’s the worst. This guy is going to destroy civilization as we know it, and the earth, and all because of these people who don’t have any idea why they’re alive.

But how do you really feel about it, Michael?

For that we go to interview number two, this time with Metro

There’s not even a way to talk to the other side. You may want to share something on Facebook, but the algorithms only allow people to see the news they want.

The wall isn’t between the U.S. and Mexico; the wall is between people who voted for Trump and people who didn’t. And we’ve got to do something about it. I don’t want to live in a country where people voted for Trump. I want to live in some other f—ing country. But I don’t want to run away. So we’re just going to have to bust this thing up.

I’m not even sure how to bust things up. We have to invent a new way.

There’s a lot of old people who need to realize they’ve had a nice life, and it’s time for them to move on. Because they’re the ones who go out and vote for these assholes. If you look at the young people, between 18 and 25, if it was up to them Hillary would have been president. No offense to the seniors out there. My mom’s a senior citizen. But if you’re voting for Trump, it’s time for the urn.

My parents voted for Trump and I’m still not sure how to talk to them about that.

F— ’em. You’re an orphan now. Don’t go home. Don’t go home for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Don’t talk to them at all. Silence speaks volumes.

Welp, there you go. The holidays are sure going to be A WHOLE LOT OF FUN for people in the coming couple of months.

H/T The Superficial

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